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23 At ang hari ay nagsugo, at pinisan nila sa kaniya ang lahat na matanda sa Juda, at sa Jerusalem.

At sumampa ang hari sa bahay ng Panginoon, at ang lahat na lalake ng Juda, at ang lahat na taga Jerusalem na kasama niya, at ang mga saserdote, at ang mga propeta, at ang buong bayan, maliit at gayon din ang malaki: at kanilang binasa sa kanilang mga pakinig ang lahat na salita ng aklat ng tipan na nasumpungan sa bahay ng Panginoon.

At ang hari ay tumayo sa tabi ng haligi, at nakipagtipan sa harap ng Panginoon, upang lumakad ng ayon sa Panginoon, at upang ingatan ang kaniyang mga utos, at ang kaniyang mga patotoo, at ang kaniyang mga palatuntunan, ng buong puso at ng buong kaluluwa, upang tuparin ang mga salita ng tipang ito na nasusulat sa aklat na ito: at ang buong bayan ay nananayo sa tipan.

At inutusan ng hari si Hilcias na dakilang saserdote, at ang mga saserdote sa ikalawang hanay, at ang mga tagatanod-pinto, na ilabas sa templo ng Panginoon ang lahat na kasangkapan na ginawa kay Baal at sa mga Asera, at sa lahat na natatanaw sa langit; at kaniyang sinunog sa labas ng Jerusalem sa mga parang ng Cedron, at dinala ang mga abo niyaon sa Beth-el.

At kaniyang inalis ang mga saserdote na palasamba sa mga dios-diosan na inihalal ng mga hari sa Juda na nagpasunog ng kamangyan sa mga mataas na dako sa mga bayan ng Juda, at sa mga dakong nangasa palibot ng Jerusalem; pati silang nagsisipagsunog ng kamangyan kay Baal, sa araw, at sa buwan, at sa mga tala, at sa lahat ng natatanaw sa langit.

At kaniyang inilabas ang mga Asera sa bahay ng Panginoon, sa labas ng Jerusalem sa batis ng Cedron, at sinunog sa batis ng Cedron, at dinurog, at inihagis ang nangadurog niyaon sa libingan ng karaniwang mga tao.

At kaniyang ibinagsak ang mga bahay ng mga sodomita, na nangasa bahay ng Panginoon, na pinagtatahian ng mga tabing ng mga babae para sa mga Asera.

At dinala ang lahat na saserdote mula sa mga bayan ng Juda, at nilapastangan ang mga mataas na dako, sa pinagsusunugan ng kamangyan ng mga saserdote, mula sa Geba hanggang sa Beerseba; at kaniyang ibinagsak ang mga mataas na dako ng mga pintuang-bayan na nangasa pasukan ng pintuang-bayan ni Josue, na tagapamahala ng bayan, na nangasa kaliwa ng pasukan sa pintuan ng bayan.

Gayon ma'y ang mga saserdote sa mga mataas na dako ay hindi sumampa sa dambana ng Panginoon sa Jerusalem, kundi sila'y nagsikain ng tinapay na walang lebadura sa gitna ng kanilang mga kapatid.

10 At kaniyang nilapastangan ang Topheth, na nasa libis ng mga anak ni Hinnom, upang huwag paraanin ng sinoman ang kaniyang anak na lalake o babae sa apoy kay Moloch.

11 At kaniyang inalis ang mga kabayo na ibinigay ng hari ng Juda sa araw, sa pasukan ng bahay ng Panginoon, sa siping ng silid ni Nathan-melech na kamarero, na nasa looban; at sinunog niya sa apoy ang mga karo ng araw.

12 At ang mga dambana na nangasa bubungan ng silid sa itaas ni Achaz, na ginawa ng mga hari sa Juda, at ang mga dambana na ginawa ni Manases sa dalawang looban ng bahay ng Panginoon ay ipinagbabagsak ng hari, at pinaggigiba mula roon, at inihagis ang alabok ng mga yaon sa batis ng Cedron.

13 At ang mga mataas na dako na nangasa harap ng Jerusalem, na nasa kanan ng bundok ng kapahamakan, na itinayo ng haring Salomon kay Asthareth na karumaldumal ng mga Sidonio, at kay Chemos na karumaldumal ng Moab, at sa kay Milcom na karumaldumal ng mga anak ni Ammon, ay nilapastangan ng hari.

14 At kaniyang pinagputolputol ang mga haligi na pinakaalaala, at pinutol ang mga Asera, at pinuno ang kanilang mga dako ng mga buto ng tao.

15 Bukod dito'y ang dambana na nasa Bethel at ang mataas na dako na ginawa ni Jeroboam, na anak ni Nabat, na nakapagkasala sa Israel, sa makatuwid baga'y ang dambanang yaon at ang mataas na dako ay kaniyang ibinagsak; at kaniyang sinunog ang mataas na dako at dinurog, at sinunog ang mga Asera.

16 At pagpihit ni Josias, ay kaniyang natanawan ang mga libingan na nangasa bundok; at siya'y nagsugo, at kinuha ang mga buto sa mga libingan, at sinunog sa dambana, at dinumhan, ayon sa salita ng Panginoon na itinanyag ng lalake ng Dios, na siyang nagtanyag ng mga bagay na ito.

17 Nang magkagayo'y kaniyang sinabi, Anong monumento yaong aking nakikita? At isinaysay ng mga lalake ng bayan sa kaniya, Yao'y libingan ng lalake ng Dios, na nanggaling sa Juda, at itinanyag ang mga bagay na ito na iyong ginawa laban sa dambana sa Beth-el.

18 At kaniyang sinabi, Bayaan ninyo; huwag galawin ng sinoman ang mga buto niya. Sa gayo'y binayaan nila ang mga buto niya, na kasama ng mga buto ng propeta na nanggaling sa Samaria.

19 At ang lahat na bahay naman sa mga mataas na dako na nangasa bayan ng Samaria, na ginawa ng mga hari sa Israel upang mungkahiin ang Panginoon sa galit, ay pinagaalis ni Josias, at ginawa sa mga yaon ang ayon sa lahat na gawa na kaniyang ginawa sa Beth-el.

20 At kaniyang pinatay ang lahat na saserdote sa mga mataas na dako na nangandoon, sa ibabaw ng mga dambana, at sinunog ang mga buto ng mga tao sa mga yaon; at siya'y bumalik sa Jerusalem.

21 At iniutos ng hari sa buong bayan, na sinasabi, Ipagdiwang ninyo ang paskua sa Panginoon ninyong Dios, gaya ng nasusulat sa aklat na ito ng tipan.

22 Tunay na hindi ipinagdiwang ang gayong paskua mula sa mga araw ng mga hukom na naghukom sa Israel, o sa lahat ng mga araw man ng mga hari sa Israel, o ng mga hari man sa Juda;

23 Kundi nang ikalabing walong taon ng haring Josias ay ipinagdiwang ang paskuang ito sa Panginoon sa Jerusalem.

24 Bukod dito'y sila na nakikipagsanggunian sa masamang espiritu, at ang mga manghuhula, at ang mga terap, at ang mga diosdiosan, at ang lahat na karumaldumal na natanawan sa lupain ng Juda, at sa Jerusalem, ay pinagaalis ni Josias, upang kaniyang matupad ang mga salita ng kautusan na nasusulat sa aklat na nasumpungan ni Hilcias na saserdote sa bahay ng Panginoon.

25 At walang naging hari na gaya niya na una sa kaniya, na bumalik sa Panginoon ng buong puso niya, at ng buong kaluluwa niya, at ng buong kapangyarihan niya, ayon sa buong kautusan ni Moises; ni may bumangon mang sumunod sa kaniya na gaya niya.

26 Gayon ma'y hindi tinalikdan ng Panginoon ang bagsik ng kaniyang malaking pag-iinit, na ipinagalab ng kaniyang galit laban sa Juda, dahil sa lahat na pamumungkahi na iminungkahi ni Manases sa kaniya.

27 At sinabi ng Panginoon, Akin ding aalisin ang Juda sa aking paningin, gaya ng aking pagaalis sa Israel, at aking itatakuwil ang bayang ito na aking pinili, sa makatuwid baga'y ang Jerusalem, at ang bahay na aking pinagsabihan. Ang pangalan ko'y doroon.

28 Ang iba nga sa mga gawa ni Josias, at ang lahat na kaniyang ginawa, di ba nangasusulat sa aklat ng mga alaala sa mga hari sa Juda?

29 Nang mga kaarawan niya, si Faraon-nechao na hari sa Egipto at umahon laban sa hari sa Asiria, sa ilog Eufrates: at ang haring Josias ay naparoon laban sa kaniya; at pinatay niya siya sa Megiddo, nang makita niya siya.

30 At dinala siyang patay ng kaniyang mga lingkod sa isang karo, mula sa Megiddo at dinala siya sa Jerusalem, at inilibing siya sa kaniyang sariling libingan. At kinuha ng bayan ng lupain si Joachaz na anak ni Josias, at pinahiran ng langis siya, at ginawa siyang hari na kahalili ng kaniyang ama.

31 Si Joachaz ay may dalawangpu't tatlong taon nang siya'y magpasimulang maghari; at siya'y nagharing tatlong buwan sa Jerusalem: at ang pangalan ng kaniyang ina ay Amutal na anak ni Jeremias na taga Libna.

32 At siya'y gumawa ng masama sa paningin ng Panginoon, ayon sa lahat na ginawa ng kaniyang mga magulang.

33 At inilagay ni Faraon-nechao siya sa pangawan sa Ribla, sa lupain ng Hamath, upang siya'y huwag makapaghari sa Jerusalem; at siningilan ang bayan ng isang daang talentong pilak, at isang talentong ginto.

34 At ginawa ni Faraon-nechao si Eliacim na anak ni Josias, na hari na kahalili ni Josias, na kaniyang ama, at pinalitan ang kaniyang pangalan ng Joacim: nguni't kaniyang dinala si Joachaz; at siya'y naparoon sa Egipto, at namatay roon.

35 At ibinigay ni Joacim ang pilak at ginto kay Faraon; nguni't kaniyang pinabuwis ang lupain upang magbigay ng salapi ayon sa utos ni Faraon; kaniyang siningil ang pilak at ginto ng bayan ng lupain, sa bawa't isa ayon sa ipinabuwis niya upang ibigay kay Faraon-nechao.

36 Si Joacim ay may dalawangpu't limang taon nang magpasimulang maghari: at siya'y nagharing labing isang taon sa Jerusalem: at ang pangalan ng kaniyang ina ay Zebuda na anak ni Pedaia na taga Ruma.

37 At siya'y gumawa ng masama sa paningin ng Panginoon, ayon sa lahat na ginawa ng kaniyang mga magulang.

Josiah Renews the Covenant(A)(B)(C)(D)

23 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read(E) in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant,(F) which had been found in the temple of the Lord. The king stood by the pillar(G) and renewed the covenant(H) in the presence of the Lord—to follow(I) the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.

The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers(J) to remove(K) from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel. He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense(L) to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.(M) He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley(N) outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder(O) and scattered the dust over the graves(P) of the common people.(Q) He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes(R) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba(S) to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate. Although the priests of the high places did not serve(T) at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

10 He desecrated Topheth,(U) which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom,(V) so no one could use it to sacrifice their son(W) or daughter in the fire to Molek. 11 He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah(X) had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[a] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.(Y)

12 He pulled down(Z) the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof(AA) near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts(AB) of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.(AC) 13 The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon(AD) king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable(AE) god of the people of Ammon.(AF) 14 Josiah smashed(AG) the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.(AH)

15 Even the altar(AI) at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam(AJ) son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. 16 Then Josiah(AK) looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance(AL) with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

17 The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?”

The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”

18 “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones(AM).” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet(AN) who had come from Samaria.

19 Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger. 20 Josiah slaughtered(AO) all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones(AP) on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

21 The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover(AQ) to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”(AR) 22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.(AS)

24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists,(AT) the household gods,(AU) the idols and all the other detestable(AV) things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord. 25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned(AW) to the Lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.(AX)

26 Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger,(AY) which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh(AZ) had done to arouse his anger. 27 So the Lord said, “I will remove(BA) Judah also from my presence(BB) as I removed Israel, and I will reject(BC) Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’[b]

28 As for the other events of Josiah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

29 While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho(BD) king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.(BE) 30 Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot(BF) from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Jehoahaz King of Judah(BG)

31 Jehoahaz(BH) was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal(BI) daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. 32 He did evil(BJ) in the eyes of the Lord, just as his predecessors had done. 33 Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah(BK) in the land of Hamath(BL) so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[c] of silver and a talent[d] of gold. 34 Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim(BM) son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.(BN) 35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.(BO)

Jehoiakim King of Judah(BP)

36 Jehoiakim(BQ) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. 37 And he did evil(BR) in the eyes of the Lord, just as his predecessors had done.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. 2 Kings 23:27 1 Kings 8:29
  3. 2 Kings 23:33 That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons
  4. 2 Kings 23:33 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms

23 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

26 Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

27 And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.

36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.